Hello,
I need a dual Ethernet, PoE powered device to serve as an emergency tool when main WAN access is broken on remote sites.
Mikrotik mAP seems to fit but as this device is now quite old, I wonder if its memory, CPU and other characteristics are still compatible with late and future RouterOS versions.
Best regards
At least for the moment, it is reported to work just fine with 7.x, see this post by holvoeth:
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/just-updated-map-firmware-and-now-its-broke/180391/1
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/just-updated-map-firmware-and-now-its-broke/180391/1
In the future there might be issues, but the good Mikrotik guys are doing their best to keep compatibility, and if you can have it working with 6.49.17 (“final” v6) or one of the latest v7, you should be good for a long time, after all I believe it is not like you need newest features or complex ones, it shoudl become a basic “backup” device.
It is more an issue with its routing speed, that may be too slow for your requirements, it should be in the 150-200 Mbit range.
Yes, works just fine !
(IPSEC to Azure, Wireguard, EOIP, , DHCP for about 15 devices, routing, ISP connection of 50/20Mb…)
“only” 19d uptime because I did upgrade of that version, before it was 139d.
And how are you going to do that with only 100Mb ports ??? 
There are 2 ethernet interfaces and WiFi being (in theory) faster than 100Mbps. And ethernet ports are (according to marketing department of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation) 200Mbps (because they are full-duplex). So cumulative “wire” speed is north of 600Mbps, making routing speed of 150-200Mbps a misery.
100Mbps over 2.4GHz legacy wireless ?
Yeah, one can dream.
Make no mistake about my sentiments, however. That mAP is still a fabulous device for its price and flexibility ! I even prefer it over mAP Lite (I do keep that one in my backpack wherever I go).
But I get what you mean.
Everyone always refers to combined routing performance but then they complain when they don’t get unidirectional performance.